Harris supporters displayed a ton of self-righteousness during the US presidential campaign. Annoyed me, a natural ally. Can only imagine how much it pissed off the average apathetic voter and don't see a lot of discussion around US turnout falling from 2020.
There's a lesson there for combatting Australia's own Trumpian forces come next year's federal election. Less lecturing and assumed victory, more open discussion and willingness to listen, to engage the disengaged and hopefully bring them along.
A huge advantage of being a small and irrelevant world power is we can watch and learn, as we did with our electoral system, then adapt far faster than the larger powers stuck in their inexorable trajectories. That could be very useful in this context.
#auspol #uspol
There's a lesson there for combatting Australia's own Trumpian forces come next year's federal election. Less lecturing and assumed victory, more open discussion and willingness to listen, to engage the disengaged and hopefully bring them along.
A huge advantage of being a small and irrelevant world power is we can watch and learn, as we did with our electoral system, then adapt far faster than the larger powers stuck in their inexorable trajectories. That could be very useful in this context.
#auspol #uspol
